I heard my Dad tell the man who took us out on his boat we had better head in as he didn't like the look of the clouds that were forming. The owner of the boat said a little rain never hurt anybody. That began a 4 hour battle to get back to our campgrounds on Sandusky bay from Lake Erie. The bay was even raging with the boat hitting the bottom after every wave. Lost boat propeller and had to paddle the rest of the way in, I was a child in the early 1970s but I will always remember sitting with a life jacket on and our moms telling us to pray. My dad was an experienced boater and coast guard and he told me the driver of the boat that day didn't respect the lake, that he didn't get storms can pop up in a matter of minutes on Lake Erie. Growing up on the lake as I did I respected it ever since. The waves on that Lake were incredible. Glad that cabin cruiser we were on held up and I never forgot my Dad's calm demeanor and guidance that day. He was the reason we made it back in one piece.
14 foot aluminium boat, on a small lake, wave goes to 1.5 foot to 3.5 in a blink of an eye.. scariest experience in my life. Next morning selling the 14 aluminum boat and buy an 18 an watching forecast before each fishing trip now…..
I grew up 4 miles away from Lake Erie, and spent a lot of time out on that lake in small boats as a child. I have friends who live near oceans, and they often dismiss the great lakes as insignificant and benign bodies of water. Those lakes will kill you in a hurry if you naively doubt their ferocity, and underestimate their potential.
I've never been up there, but I can assure you I respects those waters just as much as off shore. The storms up there in the summer can be extremely violent, more so than the vast majority of squalls down here in the gulf other than the tropical systems, and the squalls are nothing to play around with either.
I've been on some small lakes that can get hairy enough. I couldn't imagine how bad it gets on the great lakes. I believe it that it can get you good out there. The ocean on a good day can kill you.
@@brettshannon4032 you didn’t grow up on the gulf if you think our squalls are insignificant. We have squalls way worse than this storm on a daily basis in the summer in Florida. Would much rather go through one in a landlocked lake where it can only get so rough.
@@diegoscoffin7491 I've been all up and down east coast and the gulf. I never said they ain't shit, i don't play with weather and the water. You don't think supercells cant stir up 20 to 30 foot seas just because it's a so called "lake"?
I an't believe how slow everyone was to react to the captains orders to get the lines and plates back into the boat! This could have been a real disaster!
The scary thing about watching this, having sailed on it commercially for years., this was not even anything close to a real Lake Erie storm. All fun and games till you find out fresh water and lungs don't mix.
@@cartercarter3484 ua-cam.com/video/o_vfWw02Dj8/v-deo.html Found that one of some winter surfers but usually mid August onward 10 footer+ are normal in a good storm. It's the most shallow of the lakes so when they go it comes on fast.
Off of Barcelona Harbor, about two miles, from mostly calm to ten foot waves in a half hour. Comes up quick, and it is easy to dismiss the early warning signs because you know that it usually isn't that bad. But when it does get bad, your swamped and bobbing at the surface. The motor doesn't want to push a boat full of water. It does get scary.
seems like they got surprised by the weather thats a mistake but it happens. I don't see why they're so stupid they reeled up and went in maybe they could have done so a little earlier. The guy on the keyboard is always fucking smarter right.
Yup my thoughts as well, I actually wondered if these guys including the boat driver have ever been out on the water before lol the captain didn't seem to know what he was doing
A friend had a 30+ sailboat in Marblehead. When Lake Erie kicks up it can gon from an easy relaxing day to dangerous in a heartbeat. You do not leave the marina without a weather forecast and a radio. This storm was pretty mild.
@@dantheman8872 it is but so is Erie and well hell all 5 are the "most dangerous" Superior is the most dangerous in terms of shear volume and size, Erie is the shallowest and gets rough the fastest but Michigan, Huron, and Ontario all get crazy too
Never underestimate the power of Lake Erie. I was up by the salt mine area. We walked out along that peninsula and beach. There were whitecaps right against the grand river outlet. The report was waves ranging from 2-6 feet.
And then divided by six. Captain said start getting lines in . Jerks just wandered around until storm was on then and then lines tangled and some almost wrapped around prop. Not a good situation to be in,
This storm didn't just come out of nowhere. It was a front. Lake Erie can change in minutes, but this type of storm was forecasted. This is just being unprepared and the call for life jackets is was too late.
If you are ever wondering how people get caught up in a storm and die on the Great Lakes or an ocean, just watch this video. When the water was calmer, at the beginning, they still had time to move out of the way of the worst of that storm (if their engine was working properly). This was a foolhardy and unnecessary risk to take and it's obvious that was no rogue storm--it was part of a previously forecast system. The captain and crew were either untrained or just stupid. Life jackets that will become waterlogged death weights in less than an hour and average summer water temperatures in the low 70's F (22 C)... it would be a shame, but all of those guys would not make it long enough to be rescued.
Nintenkid91 It still baffles me when people say "I didn't know it was supposed to rain?". Even if it wasn't forecast - did you not ever make the connection between hot sticky afternoons and stormy evenings?
I don’t know if that’s fair exactly, I was on lake George and a storm hit us out of no where sunny one minute, got a little dark and then BAM and it’s swells get so bad you hit bottom.
There's a reason Lake Erie requires even freighter captains to have special marine licensing to pilot that lake. Wave sets may not be as high as in the Atlantic but the intervals are deadly close and its the most shallow lake of them all.
More people died on the Great Lakes in 2016 than any other. I was at my home port this past August when one happened. The Coast Guard helicopter circling the area was a sober reminder of just how much water you are on. In the 45 years I've fished the Great Lakes, I've seen and heard too many incidents that could have and should have been prevented.
“should have and could have been prevented” are words usually attached to most captains who sit on the stern in a storm. At least he gave them life jackets.
Wow , still fishing when the storm was on the horizon, this captain is not going to live long, if he keeps this behavior up. Having been caught in a full gale in the days before radio were common it is not something you want to do more than once.
Lake Erie is particularly dangerous, not just because of the intense thunderstorms that brew up out of nowhere but because it is so shallow. Shallow bodies of water create square waves when the seas come up as the bottoms, tops of the waves are chopped off by the lake bottom. Square waves are steep. You literally fall off of them. Take a look at shipwreck maps of Erie. It is sobering how many have been lost. p.s. Power boats are like shoe boxes and they are terrible hull forms in any kind of weather.
+samiam1150 -- Yep. And the fact that the skipper had to tell the others where the life jackets were, and that there weren't enough until getting more out of a case in the forward compartment, is also worrying. There should have been a safety briefing at the dock before setting off, and enough PFDs for each soul on board should have been readily available, if not actually worn.
+SeikiBrian Wouldn't have mattered much even if they had been wearing those lifejackets. They're the wrong type. Type II Lifejackets are designed for calm inland waters where rescue would be quick. If that boat had sunk, and all they had were those lifejackets, they probably would have drowned anyway, given the location & the condition of the seas.
1unknowtou doesnt matter if its fresh water the lakes are so big they have the same laws as they do if you go out past 3 miles in the ocean. also salt water has more buoyancy then fresh water so those life jackets wouldnt have done much after a couple hours of being thrown aroind by tge waves because they could be rescued
Rick Garland I wasn't talking about the maritime laws or safety at all. I was referring to the error in calling the body of water what it should be. Lake Erie being shallow actually can make it more dangerous.
How do we know that those storms were forecast for that day?? There are NO other rec boaters in sight! If you don't give the Great Lakes the respect you would give to an ocean, you're asking to become fish bait.... Any "lake" (Superior) that can sink a 700+ foot long freighter ship, before the crew could even scream "mayday" into the radio, is a lake as dangerous as any ocean on the planet (SS Edmund Fitzgerald).
Here is a classic example of how guys die going fishing, and why some people shouldn't own a boat! The skipper didn't require everyone to wear life jackets, the skipper is out of the boat on the swim platform retrieving equipment that can be done from the cockpit. If he falls in there is another emergency! Well, I am sure you can see the list of bad actions goes on and on. These guys were lucky!
Matthew_Aviation They saw the storm on the horizon. Should have been pro active instead they were reactive. They should've had all the gear pulled in and stowed with their lifejackets on before the storm even hit them. This falls on the inexperience of the skipper!
I had a similar experience on Lake Erie back in 1980. It went from a calm Beautiful summer day to black skies quickly, the waves were so big, we were getting pounded badly. Thank God my Uncle Jimmy and Cousin David were experienced boaters, we finally made it to shore n waited it out. Scary
The Great Lakes change in an instant and you are often too far away to allow a quick return to harbour.. They are in a weird weather area that is both Maritime and Continental at the same time ... the Continental part kicks in those intense thunderstorms out of the blue.
People who aren't from around here often don't realize how deadly Lake Erie storms can be, and how they seem to appear out of nowhere. Like the Cessna that just went missing on 12-30-16, and even the mystery of lake effect snow- how forecasters still can't predict it accurately. Some see it as just a little lake, but there are still hundreds of capsized boats and ships who have never been recovered. He was smart to tell them to get their life jackets on.
Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes, but from what I have read and seen here on You Tube, it can be deadly with storms that flare up suddenly. Why didn't they turn around and head in when they saw that big dark cloud? I live in Chicago on Lake Michigan, and a lot of storms and lake effect snow whip up suddenly.
E Mack - I can only assume it was because of their carelessness. :/ Many people on Lake Erie only consider the "now" waves, instead of wiring about the "oncoming" waves. They think to themselves, "Well, I see the storm coming... But, the waves are still flat so I guess I'll just hang out a little bit longer." Then, before they know it, BOOM, the waves are crashing in high before they even know it...
Holy crap. First time I saw Lake Erie was a sunny day, we were heading for Cleveland, and it was just calm & beautiful, this incredible body of water. I never saw any of the Great Lakes until 2013, late in life, and they were awesome.
If you're on Waverly Beach, where Lake Erie turns to become the Niagara River, you are looking up the Canadian and American sides of the lake. A cloud formation can be coming down along the Canadian shore, with another cloud formation coming down the American side. I saw Canadian clouds bump into American clouds, making a ninety-degree angle as they were turned away.
Swamp Rat Exactly, I think a lot of people don't realize how that works in the way of energy transfer of waves. The waves build very quickly and violently and they get slap happy. They didn't show what the Great Lakes can really bring in rough weather.
I’ve been in much worse in Lake Erie multiple times. You’re just waiting for “it/something” to happen and keep hoping it doesn’t. Head for the closest marina no matter which way you were planning on going/ look for a place to beach it if you have to. A boat can be replaced-you can’t.
As someone who lived on neighboring Lake Ontario and boated there, the calm water can turn to white caps/bad chop in a matter of minutes. Must have a 40ft+ boat with a radio, as a rule you never go more than a 1/2 mile off shore. Great lakes have hundreds of sunken wrecks - some of them were ocean-going vessels; waves break ships in half.
I used to fish out of Colchester Harbour all the time. Saw more of these storms come up than I can count. If this was in the forecast I probably wouldn't have went out more than a km from the harbour. If it wasn't I would have hustled back to the marina as fast as possible once I saw it starting to form.
I rented a rowboat near lakeside and rowed a few miles out into lake erie. Storm came up quick. Bad part about Lake erie is it's shallowness. Waves get high, akin to the ocean surf. I rowed for all I was worth and got back into the dock with torrential rain and gail force winds. The dock master was so impressed, he let me have a free motor for all future trips.
Keith, I want to thank you for posting this video. It gave me a wake up call. I am 69 year old female who runs a 24 foot cabin cruiser on Lake Erie. I have been raised around this lake so I know first hand how quickly a storm can blow in. After watching your video, I made a poster with the directions on initializing a mayday call on the radio with the phone number of the coast guard in case the radio fails and the telephone number of Boat US for towing. I will post it right at the helm. I think you handled that situation very well and I did not see any panic. I wish I could have seen the rest of the video where you arrived at port LOL.. thanks
I got caught in a storm that came out of nowhere in my 30' cabin cruiser on Lake Michigan between Milwaukee and Port Washington. We were in 16' swells! When we were in the belly of the swell all we could see was a black wall of water all around us!! We were 10 miles offshore and for a time, I didn't think we would make it. The boat sustained some damage but we made it back to port. I spent my entire life growing up along the lake but since that day, it has my full respect! That sense of helplessness is something you NEVER forget!!
I remeber once that me and 2 other friends was out on Lake Erie in an old 22 foot wooden boat when the weather changed from clear sky's to violent weather for 10 minutes. The swells were actually boisterous popping waves that would leave us suspended and falling back to crash about 10 feet each big wave pop. It was the scariest 10 minutes of my life. Hat of to Mr. P for staying calm and controlling the boat. I thought the bottom of the boat was going to bust open.
I fished a lot of Lake Erie by Canadian border in around 50 to 60 feet of water but most of south end seems to be 20 feet or less. its the shallow lakes that can blow up real fast and catch you off guard sometimes,,, but these guys were just an accident looking for a place to happen, and too many captains on board.
Those are 3 to 4 foot waves at the most due to a small thunderstorm. However, inland boats are not use to one of the roughest great lakes. When you see the cigar black shaped cloud across the total horizon, then you can expect a Lake Erie squall line with thunderstorms and waves 6 to 8 feet and wind gusting to 50 plus knots.
I grew up on Lake Erie (Huron) and my dad sailed on the ore boats. As someone wrote, this is a nasty storm but have seen larger more deadly storms on the lake. Agree.
Im on lake St Clair in Michigan and we have a 47 foot Excalibur. We were heading to cedar point and got stuck in a storm on Lake Erie, the waves were crashing over the bow, and a couple ended up going through our canvas. Lake Erie is a shallow lake which ends up causing huge waves.
This should serve as an instructional video on what NOT to do under the topic of boating 101. The single FIRST thing to do BEFORE you go out trying to play 'deadliest catch' is check the weather! BTW, invest $120 in a decent DSC radio!
agreed and by the way, the title of that series MEANS what it says and those crews are making big money for risking their lives. they work as hard and as safely as they can not one of them wants to die and even then some boats never come home again. every body pays,, and i would say NO FISH,, be it a king crab, or a walleye, is worth ONE MAN's LIFE!!!!! that is a price too high to pay. when you see a storm like THAT moving in GET OFF THE GOD DAMN LAKE!!! the fucking fish will still be there the next day. THAT is called COMMON SENSE that is something the four of those clowns in that film clip sorely lack
This has happened to me on both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Although, I was on a sailboat without a way to easily evade the squalls. Why did these guys wait until the it was right over them before deciding to reel in their lines?
I'm looking to m e to Cleveland is the algae issue stills. Problem on the western side? Is there a lot of nasty things on the bottom like dead bodies batteries and other bad chemicals? Is jet skiing allowed? Is it somewhat clear near shore or nasty and murky? I reslly want to move to Cleveland for the lake but idk if the lake is ready to be enjoyed I read so much had about it but it looks rather nice.
I grew up on Lake Erie. Our house was flooded by Lake Erie’s twice. Great Lake ships would sometimes ground themselves in front of the house in the fog. The Edmund Fitzgerald used to steam by our yard. But these guys can’t figure out how to wind in their reels before they motor under a shelf cloud?
Yep that's are Great Lakes storms come in out of nowhere I'm on Lake Huron out of Bayfield Ontario I've been in some pretty wicked shit coming back from the North Channel
Lakes are more dangerous in storms than the ocean due to extreme short interval swells that will swamp you. I’ve boated all the pacific and Los Cabos. The most scared I have ever been was at lake don Pedro when a storm hit
I remember being in the same situation on Lake Erie. Anyone who talks shit about how it doesn't look bad had never been on the lake. The waves come strait up under the boat, not rolling like the ocean or larger lakes. Kudos for actually wearing the jackets. So many "almost died" videos on you tube, but most never put on a jacket.
lol it was bad.. the waves were only like 2ft they looked like idk the camera guy wouldnt show then just the windshield lol.. i boat and live on lake erie... always watch weather
This looks like every trip I’ve taken on my friends boat! “ Hey, I heard there’s a nor’easter hitting heavy today! “ “ Nah, that’s going to miss us..the fish are everywhere today we can’t miss! “ “ Ok, great! “ ………..🙄😂
i dont understand how people in this day and age can get caught with their pants down by weather like this when its so incredibly easy to keep tabs on the weather minute to minute. there's no excuse. I constantly keep tabs on the radar even when im home safe, but to think you could go out in a tiny little boat and not even have your gear pulled in by the time a massive storm hits you.. its insane.
Man I grew up on that good old girl ( Erie). Fishing out of Port Colborne Ont 🇨🇦. Erie is such a shallow lake. That is what makes her deadly. I was caught out in a storm one time and the swells had to be at lest 8 to 10 feet. When u were at the bottom of the swell, it looked like the water was going to collapse on you. At the bottom all u can see is water 360 degrees no sky.
Hey, while I have my thumb up my ass with this camera, lets let the boat turn broadside to and watch everything go to shit. Wonder none of these morons drowned.
Switch over to your GPS map to figure your best course. The wind is blowing you off a compass heading and it will record your past track, then you can figure course with average compass heading corrected for wind and wave.
I think it was bad planning to have been caught by this weather since you can see it days away. I do want to commend the captain for getting out the life preservers. Men are not always so willing to put them on. I witnessed a boat being flipped over near the moth of the Columbia river when I was 10. I never had a problem wearing a life preserver from that day on. 4 men went in 1 came out. We were 75 yards away and another boat was there in less then 1 min.
Jay Battle "i have been in storms when the weather was clear for days with zero precipitation" This does not make any sense. You can't have a storm with zero precipitation and clear weather. Perhaps you comments are the ones that need to hit the crapper.
Pho Nics Popup storms are extremely common around the lakes - All it takes is a temperature over 80f with mild humidity and you've got all the ingredients needed for a stormy evening. Both sticky days and days over 80f are pretty common on the southern side of the great lakes (during summer obviously). A sunny blue sky day can have a rouge storm form in 10-15 minutes.
Those are some Breakers there, that ship,looks fairly small but the Captain did well, not freaking out and keeping steady power up so the Bow is always up but not so fast to bounce too much. Great Job Capt.
i've been in a storm like this up there in an 18ft Thompson out near West Sister, we ran as soon as the wind switched direction and still couldn't make it away fast enough. Luckily, with gps, we made it into Turtle Creek to wait it out, but it went from flat to 6 foot waves in minutes. Now, we watch the radar and wave/wind forecast constantly so it never happens again.
In reading these comments, I can see why the coast guard is strict with life jackets etc. These people saying this video is nothing or talking about going on lake erie in small boats like 16 ft in waves of 5 ft are just plain idiots. I've been around lake erie all my life and I have known of many people loosing their lives over stupidity. You can never be too careful on Lake Erie and taking lake erie lightly is careless and an accident waiting to happen.
Karen Pleban agreed. If you don't respect Erie, it will kill you. I'm not sure if this was a chartered tour but if it was, the owner is criminally negligent
I got sea sick just watching the video flipping around filming the ceiling of the cabin. Did I miss it or was there actually some footage of the storm?
Got caught in a lake storm on the 3rd leg of our boating trip from cedar point to Cleveland,weather report said 1 to 3 ft waves,bright sunny day,we normally would leave at dawn,but,this day we hesitated,left about 10:30am,got out from cedar point heading east towards Cleveland,1 to 3 foot waves,had a 34x Silverton( could handle those waves,no problem),but,as we got further out,waves went to 3 to 6 and if you know Erie, these waves slosh from all directions,I mind you pretty blue skies,no rain,wasn’t no one out there but our regatta of 7 boats,the further out we got the worst it got,it got so bad,the waves would lift my boat out of the water(I could see the seaweed and sand on the bottom) and hear my props whizzing out of the water ,this happened about hundreds of times,waves where going over the top of my boat(anyone who knows silverton’s know that they sit out of the water pretty high),(34x cruiser) ,stood up the whole journey on a trip that’s normal a 3 to 4 hr ride ended up being a9.5 hr thriller,when we got to Cleveland,I kissed the ground....They don’t call it Lake Eeriee for nothing
Was caught in a storm when I was a kid on a bass boat with my dad and few friends. We were by middle bass when the storm blew in didn't even see it coming and shot across back to south bass behind some guys sea wall. It was crazy the little bass boat just slamming over the waves trying to hold the rods down and not fly overboard.
Great Aunts had a cottage right on Lake Erie. I was a kid but remember the fire flys and how you could walk a quarter mile out and the water would be only up to your waist.
Just this year we was out in 5-6foot waves walleye drifting . It was crazy. We was catching fish nonstop and as soon as the wind picked up nothing and half the boat was seasick.
That boat will handle alot more than that,...That wind is just when it's starting to get fun,...! You need to come sailing with me some time when it's gusting 40-50 knots,...that's blowin'. Tim Erie,Pa.
These people who talk about small craft have never been on Lake Erie during a storm. I was many years ago with my father and I can tell you, scariest experience of my life. We almost didn't make it back, and we had a 20'. Marine radio's were expensive in the 80s, but he bought one soon after that experience. People can talk all they want...but I am telling you, Lake Erie is a scary lake in chop. There's no way I would even take anything under MAYBE a 16' out there unless it was pure glass.
+Matthew Pilarski * "radios" and " '80s." Misuse of apostrophes is common, but it's not hard to learn the correct usage. The first rule of thumb is: never use apostrophes to make words plural. So "radios" is the plural of "radio" and "radio's" is a singular possessive for something belonging to one radio. The second rule is: use apostrophes in contractions to stand in for other characters. So " '80s" is a contraction of "1980s."
Thank you for that comment. I will be sure to correct my grammar next time I care about the internet. Usually, I spend my days working for a living and not sitting in front of a computer correcting people's grammar. Although I've really never felt what it has been like to be unemployed.
+Matthew Pilarski -- I know the feeling: from mowing lawns. picking berries at a farm, and delivering newspapers when I was in grade school, to working on a fishing boat and at a gas station in junior high, to a split shift in a nursing home before and after school my senior year of high school, and on to full-time employment as an adult now in my 6th decade on earth, I've had to work for a living. Of course, by managing my time properly I also find time to watch PBS on TV, browse the internet, and even take online and college classes on various subjects from time to time. Never stop learning; that's the day you start to die.
I hear you.These morons saying that was nothing have never been caught in a bad storm. Big talk is real easy when you have no one to call yoi out on your BS.
I live in southern Virginia and i've been told by people who had boated the Great Lakes to never take a Great Lakes Storm lightly. I am glad they are safe but I am wondering why they waited until it was on them before starting to pack it up. Of course not being a fisherman i may not understand their need to fish until the last minute. Good video and excellent lesson on knowing your boat and where the emergency equipment is located and where you are. Again glad you made it home okay.
Because stoms often change directions when they reach water....you gotta watch them to figure a lot out about the speed and direction and what the best plan is. Action without planning is frequently worse than inaction. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Great lakes are nothing to mess with. Those from around the country who have never seen them have no idea that it's just like being on the ocean. When that chop starts slamming the boat around and you can't see land it gets a little scary. Notice the driver was quiet the whole time, it's hard to navigate and clench ass cheeks at the same time.
Grew up on the great lakes and this doesn't look bad at all. Some friend's and I drove out to Marian Island Traverse Bay (Traverse City Michigan) and on our way back a storm kicked up in min's. We were all 16-17 in a 16' P.O.S Bayliner in huge sea's and cracked the hull coming in. The Great Lake's are wicked and this vid is the norm out there.
I knew a guy that got caught in a storm on superior, when he came back from trying to head for isle Royal two boats behind him sunk, my friend of course had a cover for the back of his boat that he made that buttoned over the back. The minute that storm was sighted these people should have been heading in. All the great lakes are dangerous. Some are only apparently in the low 40s ( water temperature) from what I have heard. There are many ships in all of them .
I heard my Dad tell the man who took us out on his boat we had better head in as he didn't like the look of the clouds that were forming. The owner of the boat said a little rain never hurt anybody. That began a 4 hour battle to get back to our campgrounds on Sandusky bay from Lake Erie. The bay was even raging with the boat hitting the bottom after every wave. Lost boat propeller and had to paddle the rest of the way in, I was a child in the early 1970s but I will always remember sitting with a life jacket on and our moms telling us to pray. My dad was an experienced boater and coast guard and he told me the driver of the boat that day didn't respect the lake, that he didn't get storms can pop up in a matter of minutes on Lake Erie. Growing up on the lake as I did I respected it ever since. The waves on that Lake were incredible. Glad that cabin cruiser we were on held up and I never forgot my Dad's calm demeanor and guidance that day. He was the reason we made it back in one piece.
Listen to Daddy👑
Amen.
God’s creation demands respect
14 foot aluminium boat, on a small lake, wave goes to 1.5 foot to 3.5 in a blink of an eye.. scariest experience in my life. Next morning selling the 14 aluminum boat and buy an 18 an watching forecast before each fishing trip now…..
@@satireguy8595If only there were undeniable, factual evidence to prove God's creations....
I grew up 4 miles away from Lake Erie, and spent a lot of time out on that lake in small boats as a child. I have friends who live near oceans, and they often dismiss the great lakes as insignificant and benign bodies of water. Those lakes will kill you in a hurry if you naively doubt their ferocity, and underestimate their potential.
I go to northwestern university(on Lakefront of lake Michigan) and a lot of foreigners come here and don’t respect it. Until the monsoons come 😂
I've never been up there, but I can assure you I respects those waters just as much as off shore. The storms up there in the summer can be extremely violent, more so than the vast majority of squalls down here in the gulf other than the tropical systems, and the squalls are nothing to play around with either.
I've been on some small lakes that can get hairy enough. I couldn't imagine how bad it gets on the great lakes. I believe it that it can get you good out there. The ocean on a good day can kill you.
@@brettshannon4032 you didn’t grow up on the gulf if you think our squalls are insignificant. We have squalls way worse than this storm on a daily basis in the summer in Florida. Would much rather go through one in a landlocked lake where it can only get so rough.
@@diegoscoffin7491 I've been all up and down east coast and the gulf. I never said they ain't shit, i don't play with weather and the water. You don't think supercells cant stir up 20 to 30 foot seas just because it's a so called "lake"?
Thanks for the top notch filming Hellen keller
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LMAO!
Afropunk now that's funny!
I an't believe how slow everyone was to react to the captains orders to get the lines and plates back into the boat! This could have been a real disaster!
Yeah, i did hear right then.🤷🏻♀️
The scary thing about watching this, having sailed on it commercially for years., this was not even anything close to a real Lake Erie storm. All fun and games till you find out fresh water and lungs don't mix.
Who did you sail with? I worked for Columbia, Pringle, Bethlehem, Hanna, and even Great Lakes Towing for a short stint.
Does make Eire really get that rough and do you know where to find videos
@@cartercarter3484 ua-cam.com/video/o_vfWw02Dj8/v-deo.html Found that one of some winter surfers but usually mid August onward 10 footer+ are normal in a good storm. It's the most shallow of the lakes so when they go it comes on fast.
@@heimdalvonodin4876 I figured since it was super shallow the waves would get big fast but i wasn’t sure, thanks for the video
Off of Barcelona Harbor, about two miles, from mostly calm to ten foot waves in a half hour. Comes up quick, and it is easy to dismiss the early warning signs because you know that it usually isn't that bad. But when it does get bad, your swamped and bobbing at the surface. The motor doesn't want to push a boat full of water. It does get scary.
This guy had no business taking other people out.
Wrong safe
Anyone who disregards Lake Erie's fury is doomed to spend their eternity on the lake bottom...these guys were lucky, plain and simple.
tprdfh51 thats true with all 5 of the great lakes
Edwin fitzgerald..
And that's around some of the deepest parts in that area.
That wasn't a bad storm by Erie standards. These guys are clueless.
Correction Emory Childress, it's the Edmund Fitzgerald, just sayin'
Bunch of plebs. If weather coming fast and captain worried, cut all the lines, run for home, talk about it in the pub.
Cutting the lines... That's a pretty unfortunate idea for the fish and wildlife.
seems like they got surprised by the weather thats a mistake but it happens. I don't see why they're so stupid they reeled up and went in maybe they could have done so a little earlier. The guy on the keyboard is always fucking smarter right.
@@wizardpoop what's more important your life or injuring 1 fish but not killing it
@@wizardpoop I think they would be happier that 5 people got to live
Felt like I was watching the 3 stooges go fishing
First time fishers. Not a clue to be found. Camera guy thinks he's watering the lawn.
LOVE IT! made me laugh, thanks
Not going fishing today guys, bad weather forecasted, watering the lawn, best one I've heard in a while
Yup my thoughts as well, I actually wondered if these guys including the boat driver have ever been out on the water before lol the captain didn't seem to know what he was doing
Guys, you should be able to crank in the planer boards and down riggers. 🤔 😏 🤤
Never underestimate the power of Lake Erie. It has one of the highest shipwreck rates in the entire world.
A friend had a 30+ sailboat in Marblehead. When Lake Erie kicks up it can gon from an easy relaxing day to dangerous in a heartbeat. You do not leave the marina without a weather forecast and a radio. This storm was pretty mild.
I thought Lake Superior was the most st dangerous lake
@@dantheman8872 Lake Michigan is
@@dantheman8872 it is but so is Erie and well hell all 5 are the "most dangerous" Superior is the most dangerous in terms of shear volume and size, Erie is the shallowest and gets rough the fastest but Michigan, Huron, and Ontario all get crazy too
Lake Michigan has a high person capacity and tons of beaches. So it’s statistically the most dangerous @@MrRobjs83
Never underestimate the power of Lake Erie. I was up by the salt mine area. We walked out along that peninsula and beach. There were whitecaps right against the grand river outlet. The report was waves ranging from 2-6 feet.
Boat csn Handel bad weatger
Collective IQ onboard: 6
minus 2.
And then divided by six. Captain said start getting lines in . Jerks just wandered around until storm was on then and then lines tangled and some almost wrapped around prop. Not a good situation to be in,
I served with the Coast Guard for 20 years. These guys provide job security!
Probably all drunk lul
@@DrunkBiden Probably? lol
This storm didn't just come out of nowhere. It was a front. Lake Erie can change in minutes, but this type of storm was forecasted. This is just being unprepared and the call for life jackets is was too late.
If you are ever wondering how people get caught up in a storm and die on the Great Lakes or an ocean, just watch this video. When the water was calmer, at the beginning, they still had time to move out of the way of the worst of that storm (if their engine was working properly).
This was a foolhardy and unnecessary risk to take and it's obvious that was no rogue storm--it was part of a previously forecast system.
The captain and crew were either untrained or just stupid. Life jackets that will become waterlogged death weights in less than an hour and average summer water temperatures in the low 70's F (22 C)... it would be a shame, but all of those guys would not make it long enough to be rescued.
Craig Arndt especially on a hot summer day around 3pm
Nintenkid91 It still baffles me when people say "I didn't know it was supposed to rain?". Even if it wasn't forecast - did you not ever make the connection between hot sticky afternoons and stormy evenings?
Largo Angolo yeah I agree. I boat on Lake Michigan and have for years and you know the kind of days that you'll have those 3pm storms pop up
Yes, you can see that weather on the radar literally a half a day away. Not the right guy at the helm either. He's scared. That's bad.
As a lake erie boater, this captain was foolish. They had plenty of warning to get to safe harbor.
Wribg god boatsxsay fuck n aterr
I don’t know if that’s fair exactly, I was on lake George and a storm hit us out of no where sunny one minute, got a little dark and then BAM and it’s swells get so bad you hit bottom.
Wow, 18 minutes managed to get 34 seconds of footage of the actual lake.
Rough on Lake Erie is when the lockers are flying open, fire extinguishers are breaking loose, and it's difficult to stand.
There's a reason Lake Erie requires even freighter captains to have special marine licensing to pilot that lake. Wave sets may not be as high as in the Atlantic but the intervals are deadly close and its the most shallow lake of them all.
More people died on the Great Lakes in 2016 than any other. I was at my home port this past August when one happened. The Coast Guard helicopter circling the area was a sober reminder of just how much water you are on. In the 45 years I've fished the Great Lakes, I've seen and heard too many incidents that could have and should have been prevented.
What is that guy doing sitting on the back of the boat!!!!!!!????????
Have you heard of the Black Friday storm when ~200 sailors died on the Lakes?
@@jasonw4053 there was also the July 4th 1969 storm, highest ever recorded winds on lake Erie at 100 mph
“should have and could have been prevented” are words usually attached to most captains who sit on the stern in a storm. At least he gave them life jackets.
Having boated Lake Erie and fished it, you learn to respect her. These guys are lucky, and should stay on land.
A couple of Darwinists trying their best to win.
Your old and no one wants to be around you. You should stay off the internet.
@@barman882007 I’m not old, and you apparently have never boated on the Great Lakes or oceans.
@@barman882007 please be quit u don’t know what ur talking about
@@barman882007 quiet*
Told to wrap up rods but ignored it until the last minute.
Wow , still fishing when the storm was on the horizon, this captain is not going to live long, if he keeps this behavior up. Having been caught in a full gale in the days before radio were common it is not something you want to do more than once.
Showed this video to my blind machine shop students and they loved it!
Lake Erie is particularly dangerous, not just because of the intense thunderstorms that brew up out of nowhere but because it is so shallow. Shallow bodies of water create square waves when the seas come up as the bottoms, tops of the waves are chopped off by the lake bottom. Square waves are steep. You literally fall off of them. Take a look at shipwreck maps of Erie. It is sobering how many have been lost.
p.s. Power boats are like shoe boxes and they are terrible hull forms in any kind of weather.
The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald was playing in my head..
Edmund**
Yes
A marine radio would have warned you about the approaching storm. The Life jackets should have gone on when you first saw it coming.
+samiam1150 -- Yep. And the fact that the skipper had to tell the others where the life jackets were, and that there weren't enough until getting more out of a case in the forward compartment, is also worrying. There should have been a safety briefing at the dock before setting off, and enough PFDs for each soul on board should have been readily available, if not actually worn.
+SeikiBrian Wouldn't have mattered much even if they had been wearing those lifejackets. They're the wrong type. Type II Lifejackets are designed for calm inland waters where rescue would be quick. If that boat had sunk, and all they had were those lifejackets, they probably would have drowned anyway, given the location & the condition of the seas.
Steve Rogers LAKE Erie is a lake not a sea!
1unknowtou
doesnt matter if its fresh water the lakes are so big they have the same laws as they do if you go out past 3 miles in the ocean. also salt water has more buoyancy then fresh water so those life jackets wouldnt have done much after a couple hours of being thrown aroind by tge waves because they could be rescued
Rick Garland I wasn't talking about the maritime laws or safety at all. I was referring to the error in calling the body of water what it should be. Lake Erie being shallow actually can make it more dangerous.
How do we know that those storms were forecast for that day?? There are NO other rec boaters in sight! If you don't give the Great Lakes the respect you would give to an ocean, you're asking to become fish bait....
Any "lake" (Superior) that can sink a 700+ foot long freighter ship, before the crew could even scream "mayday" into the radio, is a lake as dangerous as any ocean on the planet (SS Edmund Fitzgerald).
And then a kickass Gordon lightfoot song not long after
Here is a classic example of how guys die going fishing, and why some people shouldn't own a boat!
The skipper didn't require everyone to wear life jackets, the skipper is out of the boat on the swim platform retrieving equipment that can be done from the cockpit. If he falls in there is another emergency! Well, I am sure you can see the list of bad actions goes on and on. These guys were lucky!
Rogue Smith he was trying to untangle the line from the prop
Should of turned the engine off gg
Matthew_Aviation They saw the storm on the horizon. Should have been pro active instead they were reactive. They should've had all the gear pulled in and stowed with their lifejackets on before the storm even hit them. This falls on the inexperience of the skipper!
Different
The skipper should have instructed the anglers to retrieve ALL the gear long before the plainly seen storm arrived.
But he probably has a Captain certificate
I had a similar experience on Lake Erie back in 1980. It went from a calm Beautiful summer day to black skies quickly, the waves were so big, we were getting pounded badly. Thank God my Uncle Jimmy and Cousin David were experienced boaters, we finally made it to shore n waited it out. Scary
How does one get out of that? (Me an inexperienced water person asking)
prayer
@@themysterypooper9230 Trim up, Throttle down and pin it lol and hope you catch a wave wrong with the bow
NOAA weather radio is a smart thing to listen to on a big lake.
Prob didn't want to kill the battery lol lol
The Great Lakes change in an instant and you are often too far away to allow a quick return to harbour.. They are in a weird weather area that is both Maritime and Continental at the same time ... the Continental part kicks in those intense thunderstorms out of the blue.
I enjoyed the roof as well, its shiny and well kept, good job :)
Ray Broussard that’s what they all say...
People who aren't from around here often don't realize how deadly Lake Erie storms can be, and how they seem to appear out of nowhere. Like the Cessna that just went missing on 12-30-16, and even the mystery of lake effect snow- how forecasters still can't predict it accurately. Some see it as just a little lake, but there are still hundreds of capsized boats and ships who have never been recovered. He was smart to tell them to get their life jackets on.
There were 10-12 foot waves on Erie the night the Cessna disappeared from the Cavs game with six people on board.
Erie is the smallest of the Great Lakes, but from what I have read and seen here on You Tube, it can be deadly with storms that flare up suddenly. Why didn't they turn around and head in when they saw that big dark cloud? I live in Chicago on Lake Michigan, and a lot of storms and lake effect snow whip up suddenly.
E Mack - I can only assume it was because of their carelessness. :/
Many people on Lake Erie only consider the "now" waves, instead of wiring about the "oncoming" waves.
They think to themselves, "Well, I see the storm coming... But, the waves are still flat so I guess I'll just hang out a little bit longer." Then, before they know it, BOOM, the waves are crashing in high before they even know it...
OMG get real, Lived on the lake all my life and this is a sprinkle. come on!
i met him 2 days before his plane went down on the lake sadly. I used to work for sbg and he came to visit us at work that week.
Got caught off Cleveland in a 4th of July storm 60 years ago. Worried that we'd never get back to Rocky River. Still a vivid memory after 60 years.
Holy crap. First time I saw Lake Erie was a sunny day, we were heading for Cleveland, and it was just calm & beautiful, this incredible body of water.
I never saw any of the Great Lakes until 2013, late in life, and they were awesome.
The same storms that drop tornadoes on land in Indiana and Ohio will go right out over the lake. It can get really hairy.
If you're on Waverly Beach, where Lake Erie turns to become the Niagara River, you are looking up
the Canadian and American sides of the lake. A cloud formation can be coming down along the
Canadian shore, with another cloud formation coming down the American side. I saw Canadian
clouds bump into American clouds, making a ninety-degree angle as they were turned away.
Lake Erie, being a shallow lake gets real nasty real quick when a storm comes in.
Swamp Rat
Exactly, I think a lot of people don't realize how that works in the way of energy transfer of waves. The waves build very quickly and violently and they get slap happy. They didn't show what the Great Lakes can really bring in rough weather.
With a average depth of 150ft deep do you really think 200 feet deep in shallow?
@@honeycane8303 I hear yah
@@winstonsmith8867 that average only comes from the new York side of lake Erie. From Toledo to the central basin you only have about 40-60' depths.
I don’t think Superior is anymore forgiving than Erie.
I’ve been in much worse in Lake Erie multiple times. You’re just waiting for “it/something” to happen and keep hoping it doesn’t. Head for the closest marina no matter which way you were planning on going/ look for a place to beach it if you have to. A boat can be replaced-you can’t.
As someone who lived on neighboring Lake Ontario and boated there, the calm water can turn to white caps/bad chop in a matter of minutes. Must have a 40ft+ boat with a radio, as a rule you never go more than a 1/2 mile off shore. Great lakes have hundreds of sunken wrecks - some of them were ocean-going vessels; waves break ships in half.
Thats misleading a bit.
Ocean going vessels are not always suited for.Gteat Lakes due to being designed witb less bouyancy due to needing less.
Wrong 20 foot good size
I used to fish out of Colchester Harbour all the time. Saw more of these storms come up than I can count. If this was in the forecast I probably wouldn't have went out more than a km from the harbour. If it wasn't I would have hustled back to the marina as fast as possible once I saw it starting to form.
I rented a rowboat near lakeside and rowed a few miles out into lake erie. Storm came up quick. Bad part about Lake erie is it's shallowness. Waves get high, akin to the ocean surf. I rowed for all I was worth and got back into the dock with torrential rain and gail force winds. The dock master was so impressed, he let me have a free motor for all future trips.
Impressed you brought the rental boat back?
you see that coming and wait that long to leave, pretty STUPID. No body I would fish with.
Keith, I want to thank you for posting this video. It gave me a wake up call. I am 69 year old female who runs a 24 foot cabin cruiser on Lake Erie. I have been raised around this lake so I know first hand how quickly a storm can blow in. After watching your video, I made a poster with the directions on initializing a mayday call on the radio with the phone number of the coast guard in case the radio fails and the telephone number of Boat US for towing. I will post it right at the helm. I think you handled that situation very well and I did not see any panic. I wish I could have seen the rest of the video where you arrived at port LOL.. thanks
Karen Pleban This isn't a storm, it's just rain, bunch of pussies.
Moses this is a storm. I would never board a person's boat that thinks this is not a storm.
Moses, didn't you see the Lightning? In the beginning that is a storm, huge winds, the waves, and the dark clouds.
@@richardsautomotive Why didn't the Captain see it coming and head in?
I got caught in a storm that came out of nowhere in my 30' cabin cruiser on Lake Michigan between Milwaukee and Port Washington. We were in 16' swells! When we were in the belly of the swell all we could see was a black wall of water all around us!! We were 10 miles offshore and for a time, I didn't think we would make it. The boat sustained some damage but we made it back to port. I spent my entire life growing up along the lake but since that day, it has my full respect! That sense of helplessness is something you NEVER forget!!
I remeber once that me and 2 other friends was out on Lake Erie in an old 22 foot wooden boat when the weather changed from clear sky's to violent weather for 10 minutes. The swells were actually boisterous popping waves that would leave us suspended and falling back to crash about 10 feet each big wave pop. It was the scariest 10 minutes of my life. Hat of to Mr. P for staying calm and controlling the boat. I thought the bottom of the boat was going to bust open.
Wood boat to light wight 22 foit fiber Glas. Cabjnncrusr
I almost pissed myself laughing. Thank you guys for this video.
I fished a lot of Lake Erie by Canadian border in around 50 to 60 feet of water but most of south end seems to be 20 feet or less. its the shallow lakes that can blow up real fast and catch you off guard sometimes,,, but these guys were just an accident looking for a place to happen, and too many captains on board.
Those are 3 to 4 foot waves at the most due to a small thunderstorm. However, inland boats are not use to one of the roughest great lakes. When you see the cigar black shaped cloud across the total horizon, then you can expect a Lake Erie squall line with thunderstorms and waves 6 to 8 feet and wind gusting to 50 plus knots.
Lake Erie can be very unforgiving in a storm. Took us four hours to make it back in once during a bad storm.
I grew up on Lake Erie (Huron) and my dad sailed on the ore boats. As someone wrote, this is a nasty storm but have seen larger more deadly storms on the lake. Agree.
Im on lake St Clair in Michigan and we have a 47 foot Excalibur. We were heading to cedar point and got stuck in a storm on Lake Erie, the waves were crashing over the bow, and a couple ended up going through our canvas. Lake Erie is a shallow lake which ends up causing huge waves.
Great big big yagt
The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a delicatessen.
It’s a lake
@@jcfishing9732 you must be fun at parties.
@@AB-bg1or sorry bro, thought you were serious about calling it a sea, my fault
@@jcfishing9732 ua-cam.com/video/0u8KUgUqprw/v-deo.html
@@jcfishing9732
It’s a Seinfeld quote dude, come on.
This should serve as an instructional video on what NOT to do under the topic of boating 101. The single FIRST thing to do BEFORE you go out trying to play 'deadliest catch' is check the weather! BTW, invest $120 in a decent DSC radio!
agreed and by the way, the title of that series MEANS what it says
and those crews are making big money for risking their lives.
they work as hard and as safely as they can not one of them wants to die
and even then some boats never come home again. every body pays,,
and i would say NO FISH,, be it a king crab, or a walleye,
is worth ONE MAN's LIFE!!!!! that is a price too high to pay.
when you see a storm like THAT moving in GET OFF THE
GOD DAMN LAKE!!! the fucking fish will still be there the next day. THAT is called COMMON SENSE that is something the four of those clowns in that film clip sorely lack
This has happened to me on both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Although, I was on a sailboat without a way to easily evade the squalls. Why did these guys wait until the it was right over them before deciding to reel in their lines?
Power sailor. MacGregor just turn 40 hp. Stop sped 20 knots
I'm looking to m e to Cleveland is the algae issue stills. Problem on the western side? Is there a lot of nasty things on the bottom like dead bodies batteries and other bad chemicals? Is jet skiing allowed? Is it somewhat clear near shore or nasty and murky? I reslly want to move to Cleveland for the lake but idk if the lake is ready to be enjoyed I read so much had about it but it looks rather nice.
I grew up on Lake Erie. Our house was flooded by Lake Erie’s twice. Great Lake ships would sometimes ground themselves in front of the house in the fog. The Edmund Fitzgerald used to steam by our yard. But these guys can’t figure out how to wind in their reels before they motor under a shelf cloud?
Yep that's are Great Lakes storms come in out of nowhere I'm on Lake Huron out of Bayfield Ontario I've been in some pretty wicked shit coming back from the North Channel
Lakes are more dangerous in storms than the ocean due to extreme short interval swells that will swamp you. I’ve boated all the pacific and Los Cabos. The most scared I have ever been was at lake don Pedro when a storm hit
That’s not true, I’ve worked in the North Sea. This is childsplay
I remember being in the same situation on Lake Erie. Anyone who talks shit about how it doesn't look bad had never been on the lake. The waves come strait up under the boat, not rolling like the ocean or larger lakes. Kudos for actually wearing the jackets. So many "almost died" videos on you tube, but most never put on a jacket.
It's just common sense geez,,,
How is it that the worst camera man in the world keeps sharing videos? lol.
Still fishing while the storm churns the lake. BRILLIANT !
That Camera man is worst👎
lol it was bad.. the waves were only like 2ft they looked like idk the camera guy wouldnt show then just the windshield lol.. i boat and live on lake erie... always watch weather
This looks like every trip I’ve taken on my friends boat!
“ Hey, I heard there’s a nor’easter hitting heavy today! “
“ Nah, that’s going to miss us..the fish are everywhere today we can’t miss! “
“ Ok, great! “ ………..🙄😂
i dont understand how people in this day and age can get caught with their pants down by weather like this when its so incredibly easy to keep tabs on the weather minute to minute. there's no excuse. I constantly keep tabs on the radar even when im home safe, but to think you could go out in a tiny little boat and not even have your gear pulled in by the time a massive storm hits you.. its insane.
Man I grew up on that good old girl ( Erie). Fishing out of Port Colborne Ont 🇨🇦. Erie is such a shallow lake. That is what makes her deadly. I was caught out in a storm one time and the swells had to be at lest 8 to 10 feet. When u were at the bottom of the swell, it looked like the water was going to collapse on you. At the bottom all u can see is water 360 degrees no sky.
the phrase "caught with their pants down" comes to mind...
cant watch it, its like watching Forrest Gump "run'
Hey, while I have my thumb up my ass with this camera, lets let the boat turn broadside to and watch everything go to shit. Wonder none of these morons drowned.
run Forrest run
Dwayne Stimpson reminds me of the part when forrest gets trapped in the storm
it's raining Jenny
Great footage of the roof. Well done.
Switch over to your GPS map to figure your best course. The wind is blowing you off a compass heading
and it will record your past track, then you can figure course with average compass heading corrected
for wind and wave.
I think it was bad planning to have been caught by this weather since you can see it days away. I do want to commend the captain for getting out the life preservers. Men are not always so willing to put them on. I witnessed a boat being flipped over near the moth of the Columbia river when I was 10. I never had a problem wearing a life preserver from that day on. 4 men went in 1 came out. We were 75 yards away and another boat was there in less then 1 min.
Stay off the water if you thing there will be a storm. Simple enough.
+Pho Nics -- Stay off UA-cam if you don't know the difference between "thing" and "think." ;-)
Jay Battle
"i have been in storms when the weather was clear for days with zero precipitation"
This does not make any sense. You can't have a storm with zero precipitation and clear weather. Perhaps you comments are the ones that need to hit the crapper.
Pho Nics Popup storms are extremely common around the lakes - All it takes is a temperature over 80f with mild humidity and you've got all the ingredients needed for a stormy evening. Both sticky days and days over 80f are pretty common on the southern side of the great lakes (during summer obviously). A sunny blue sky day can have a rouge storm form in 10-15 minutes.
What thing is simple enough?
Great video! Thanks for the upload! :)
Those are some Breakers there, that ship,looks fairly small but the Captain did well, not freaking out and keeping steady power up so the Bow is always up but not so fast to bounce too much. Great Job Capt.
"A 2 hour cruise" the minnow was lost......
It was a 3 hour cruise
why people don't check the weather before they go
Did you guys catch anything before the storm screwed up your fishing trip?
i've been in a storm like this up there in an 18ft Thompson out near West Sister, we ran as soon as the wind switched direction and still couldn't make it away fast enough. Luckily, with gps, we made it into Turtle Creek to wait it out, but it went from flat to 6 foot waves in minutes. Now, we watch the radar and wave/wind forecast constantly so it never happens again.
Seawise🛥️
I was out there in a 22' and it swelled from 4' to 8-10' in the blink of an eye. Took an hour to go from elk to walnut, white knuckles the whole way.
Gets terrifying out on Eerie. Was out in a 28ft Cabin Cruiser w twins and it felt like I was out in a dinghy. Waves that day were 9 ft rollers.
In reading these comments, I can see why the coast guard is strict with life jackets etc. These people saying this video is nothing or talking about going on lake erie in small boats like 16 ft in waves of 5 ft are just plain idiots. I've been around lake erie all my life and I have known of many people loosing their lives over stupidity. You can never be too careful on Lake Erie and taking lake erie lightly is careless and an accident waiting to happen.
Karen Pleban I have only been on the shore of Lake Erie except a docked sub, and I agree.
Karen Pleban and it should be your right to be an idiot if you want to be. I say the hell with all your rules
when you say they were loosing their lives over stupidity, you mean they freed up their life by being stupid?
G Gg until the Coast Guard has to go out and risk their lives to save the idiots
Karen Pleban agreed. If you don't respect Erie, it will kill you. I'm not sure if this was a chartered tour but if it was, the owner is criminally negligent
I got sea sick just watching the video flipping around filming the ceiling of the cabin. Did I miss it or was there actually some footage of the storm?
Got caught in a lake storm on the 3rd leg of our boating trip from cedar point to Cleveland,weather report said 1 to 3 ft waves,bright sunny day,we normally would leave at dawn,but,this day we hesitated,left about 10:30am,got out from cedar point heading east towards Cleveland,1 to 3 foot waves,had a 34x Silverton( could handle those waves,no problem),but,as we got further out,waves went to 3 to 6 and if you know Erie, these waves slosh from all directions,I mind you pretty blue skies,no rain,wasn’t no one out there but our regatta of 7 boats,the further out we got the worst it got,it got so bad,the waves would lift my boat out of the water(I could see the seaweed and sand on the bottom) and hear my props whizzing out of the water ,this happened about hundreds of times,waves where going over the top of my boat(anyone who knows silverton’s know that they sit out of the water pretty high),(34x cruiser) ,stood up the whole journey on a trip that’s normal a 3 to 4 hr ride ended up being a9.5 hr thriller,when we got to Cleveland,I kissed the ground....They don’t call it Lake Eeriee for nothing
Was caught in a storm when I was a kid on a bass boat with my dad and few friends. We were by middle bass when the storm blew in didn't even see it coming and shot across back to south bass behind some guys sea wall. It was crazy the little bass boat just slamming over the waves trying to hold the rods down and not fly overboard.
Bass boats. Worst
I been on Lake Ontario off of Cape Vincent in 1978 when a sudden storm whipped up 15-20' waves. Hold on tight.
That buy big seary worth biat not a tiy
I see lake Erie every day the storms are spectacular
Great Aunts had a cottage right on Lake Erie. I was a kid but remember the fire flys and how you could walk a quarter mile out and the water would be only up to your waist.
Keystone cops at sea😖
I kept expecting foster Brooks to come out of the cabin as a drunk captian
Just this year we was out in 5-6foot waves walleye drifting . It was crazy. We was catching fish nonstop and as soon as the wind picked up nothing and half the boat was seasick.
Great video, I have a similar video but mines in a severe storm on an 18’ pontoon. Glad you all made is back safely!!!!
Amazing how big the great lakes are, looks like the ocean.
yep all 5 of them
There more like in land seas you dont mess with it like these idoits
Great footage of the ceiling... Wtf?
It would have been nice it you had mentioned what size the boat is to get a better idea of your situation on the water during the storm.
Walleye spawns are awesome looking from an aerial view.
That boat will handle alot more than that,...That wind is just when it's starting to get fun,...! You need to come sailing with me some time when it's gusting 40-50 knots,...that's blowin'. Tim Erie,Pa.
WOW That shit comes up fast on the Lakes ! Scary !
That looks like a fun time out on the water. I wonder if it was too rough to have dinner?
I was waiting for your poles to start snapping and discharging electricity! great video!
Skeerie-Eerie, man.
These people who talk about small craft have never been on Lake Erie during a storm. I was many years ago with my father and I can tell you, scariest experience of my life. We almost didn't make it back, and we had a 20'. Marine radio's were expensive in the 80s, but he bought one soon after that experience. People can talk all they want...but I am telling you, Lake Erie is a scary lake in chop. There's no way I would even take anything under MAYBE a 16' out there unless it was pure glass.
+Matthew Pilarski * "radios" and " '80s." Misuse of apostrophes is common, but it's not hard to learn the correct usage. The first rule of thumb is: never use apostrophes to make words plural. So "radios" is the plural of "radio" and "radio's" is a singular possessive for something belonging to one radio. The second rule is: use apostrophes in contractions to stand in for other characters. So " '80s" is a contraction of "1980s."
Thank you for that comment. I will be sure to correct my grammar next time I care about the internet. Usually, I spend my days working for a living and not sitting in front of a computer correcting people's grammar. Although I've really never felt what it has been like to be unemployed.
+Matthew Pilarski -- I know the feeling: from mowing lawns. picking berries at a farm, and delivering newspapers when I was in grade school, to working on a fishing boat and at a gas station in junior high, to a split shift in a nursing home before and after school my senior year of high school, and on to full-time employment as an adult now in my 6th decade on earth, I've had to work for a living. Of course, by managing my time properly I also find time to watch PBS on TV, browse the internet, and even take online and college classes on various subjects from time to time. Never stop learning; that's the day you start to die.
Matthew Pilarski and yet the most grammatically correct UA-cam comment you've ever made.
I hear you.These morons saying that was nothing have never been caught in a bad storm. Big talk is real easy when you have no one to call yoi out on your BS.
I live in southern Virginia and i've been told by people who had boated the Great Lakes to never take a Great Lakes Storm lightly. I am glad they are safe but I am wondering why they waited until it was on them before starting to pack it up. Of course not being a fisherman i may not understand their need to fish until the last minute. Good video and excellent lesson on knowing your boat and where the emergency equipment is located and where you are. Again glad you made it home okay.
Because stoms often change directions when they reach water....you gotta watch them to figure a lot out about the speed and direction and what the best plan is. Action without planning is frequently worse than inaction. Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Makes you feel alive. I love it.
Great lakes are nothing to mess with. Those from around the country who have never seen them have no idea that it's just like being on the ocean. When that chop starts slamming the boat around and you can't see land it gets a little scary. Notice the driver was quiet the whole time, it's hard to navigate and clench ass cheeks at the same time.
As someone that’s been in this situation I can attest to that. And this comment made me laugh
Grew up on the great lakes and this doesn't look bad at all. Some friend's and I drove out to Marian Island Traverse Bay (Traverse City Michigan) and on our way back a storm kicked up in min's. We were all 16-17 in a 16' P.O.S Bayliner in huge sea's and cracked the hull coming in. The Great Lake's are wicked and this vid is the norm out there.
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I knew a guy that got caught in a storm on superior, when he came back from trying to head for isle Royal two boats behind him sunk, my friend of course had a cover for the back of his boat that he made that buttoned over the back. The minute that storm was sighted these people should have been heading in. All the great lakes are dangerous. Some are only apparently in the low 40s ( water temperature) from what I have heard. There are many ships in all of them .
Wow that’s crazy!!! I’m from Buffalo myself. To be on the water that had to be scary!!! Those clouds were moving amazingly fast.
Wings filmed there ice piolionmts too